Before we left for Winter Break my computer decided that it's wireless was just going to stop working, by not picking up any internet signals at all. At first this could be easily fixed by restarting, then problem solved! The case soon changed when nothing I could do would make the wireless connect. Then we went home and it wasn't really a problem, so I never really did anything with it. Then we came back to school and I realized that it would be needed, so I played with it a bit and all of a sudden it worked good as new, and there was much rejoycing!! Two weeks later though it decided that it wanted to cut out again, and nothing I tried could fix it. This led me to go to the very capable hands of the people at SWAT.
The first day I went there we tried scanning for and deleting the viruses on my computer, then we tried reinstalling the driver for the wireless itself. Neither of these worked, so they decided to reinstall all the drivers on my computer. I couldn't stay the whole time for the last try because I had to go to Vector, so I left it with them. One hour and fifteen minutes later I showed up back at their door expecting my computer to be in perfect working condition. This was not the case, and they sent me and my computer away for the day telling me that tomorrow we could try to reinstall the operating system, and maybe that would fix it.
The second day I got a hard drive to back up everything on my computer, and I went back to SWAT. They asked me if I would like to update to Windows 7, and I was like sure why not. So they installed it as I went off to Physics. When I came back they told me that it was installed, and that my wireless was working properly!!! I took my computer to load back on all my files and to play around with it until Vector recitation. I was overjoyed with it for about twenty minutes as I played with it, and then I learned that things were quite worse then they started out! Sure I could go on the internet wirelessly, but I could no longer write on my tablet (which is quite an essential part).
After Vector recitation, I went back to SWAT to try to fix things for good this time. They said that recently someone else had the same problem, and told me that maybe I should try some updates to fix it. We went on the Toshiba website and downloaded something that installs all sorts of updates for the computer when it has been updated to Windows 7. The whole searching, downloading and installing process took around an hour, so I just kinda hung around SWAT as we talked about the upcoming snow. When everything was finished my computer could again be written on. I took it back to the dorm, and so far we have all lived happily ever after. Key words so far!!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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I had problems with my wireless when i first got it too and i am not even close to being good with computers so it turned out to be a big problem.
ReplyDeleteyeah im no good with computers either, terrible actually. vista isn't great and always gives me problems but the ENGE professor said i should keep it for some reason, kinda sucks.
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